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SUMMARY:SST-CCW Annual Lecture: Policymaking in today’s highly contested
 \, transactional\, interconnected\, and uncertain world
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DESCRIPTION:Democratic dissatisfaction is at levels not seen in decades\, 
 generating intense pressure for new policies and reformed institutions. An
 d yet the current landscape — marked by geopolitical contestation\, tran
 sactional diplomacy\, deep interconnectedness\, and strategic uncertainty 
 — is increasingly constraining. The challenges facing ambitious\, long-h
 orizon\, transformative projects are likely to deepen\, not ease\, in the 
 coming years. In this talk\, I examine the major geopolitical\, technologi
 cal\, and domestic forces shaping today's environment and argue that what 
 this moment most demands is not incremental adjustment but radical innovat
 ion. The catch: the innovation we are missing is not technological. It is 
 social and political and should be designed\, to borrow a phrase from form
 er President Eisenhower\, to “keep the peace\, to foster progress in hum
 an achievement\, and to enhance liberty\, dignity\, and integrity among pe
 oples and among nations."\n\nAvril D. Haines is the former U.S. director o
 f national intelligence. As a member of President Joe Biden’s cabinet\, 
 she led the U.S intelligence community and served as the president’s pri
 ncipal intelligence adviser.\n\nHaines has held senior roles across govern
 ment\, including principal deputy national security advisor\, deputy direc
 tor of the Central Intelligence Agency\, legal adviser to the National Sec
 urity Council\, and deputy chief counsel to the U.S. Senate’s Committee 
 on Foreign Relations. She has also worked in academia\, having served as a
  senior research scholar at Columbia University and a senior fellow at Joh
 ns Hopkins University. She is currently a visiting fellow at All Souls Col
 lege at Oxford University.\n\nHaines received her Bachelor of Arts in phys
 ics from the University of Chicago and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Univ
 ersity Law Center. She served as a law clerk for Judge Danny Boggs on the 
 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and founded and ran a bookstor
 e café for five years while engaged in community service in Baltimore. In
  2017\, President Barack Obama appointed her to the National Commission on
  Military\, National\, and Public Service. She has also served on several 
 boards and advisory groups over the years.\n\nA DRINKS RECEPTION WILL FOLL
 OW THIS LECTURE\, ALL WELCOME.
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LOCATION:Lady Margaret Hall - Simpkins Lee Theatre\, Simpkins Lee Theatre 
 Lady Margaret Hall Norham Gardens Oxford Oxfordshire OX2 6QA United Kingdo
 m
SPEAKER:Avril Haines (All Souls College)
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